Way Too Much Corruption
>Pinkham, Jim asked: >I have a folder with three versions of a manual (in subfolders) replete >with conditional text, insets, and all the marvels of single sourcing. I >haven't worked on these files for about 6 weeks. This morning all of >them are coming up as corrupt, including the subfolders and the backups. >Any ideas what might be causing this and how to fix it? Your help is >much appreciated. I had this same thing happen during my last contract. Are you opening the manual directly from a shared network drive? When I copied the corrupted files to my desktop, they opened without error. HTH, Jim
Graphics size within FM 7. and WWP
Hello All, Thanks to everyone who helped me with the problem that I had with my .chm file, in which it seemed to have jumped from ~13MB to ~43MB in one generation. After going through the files thoroughly, it seems that the culprits were graphics that I saved as .bmps, instead of .gifs. After a few simple calculations, I found that these graphics added ~30MB to the total .chm file size. My manager would like to save space wherever possible and has asked that I reduce the size of the larger graphics and thus the size of my help file. At this point I don't see any way of fixing this other than redoing the documentation: Click through our software application Recapture the graphics in question, saving them as .gifs Insert the graphics into my FM file Regenerate the project in WWP Is there a batch process that I can use to change these graphics from .bmp to .gif in WW, or do I have to do this in the source files (FM)? TIA, Jim
Camtasia
Hmmm...is there a Camtasia list that I can join? Let's see if I can get away with posting a question here and on WWP :^) Now that I've finished my documentation, my boss wants me to create tutorials, so he purchased Camtasia. Very nice application. I listened to/looked at some of the tutorials that the previous tech writer created and found them to be fairly good. Although her voice sounded like a transmission between StarFleet and the Enterprise, she was able to run through an entire procedure without stopping. How? I'll never know. I created two tutorials last week and basically had to split the various step procedures into quarters. More accurately, I had to split the software screens I was talking about in quarters, talk about each quarter, while taking breaks between each. Is this how most of you create tutorials? - Jim ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Camtasia
Hmmm...is there a Camtasia list that I can join? Let's see if I can get away with posting a question here and on WWP :^) Now that I've finished my documentation, my boss wants me to create tutorials, so he purchased Camtasia. Very nice application. I listened to/looked at some of the tutorials that the previous tech writer created and found them to be fairly good. Although her voice sounded like a transmission between StarFleet and the Enterprise, she was able to run through an entire procedure without stopping. How? I'll never know. I created two tutorials last week and basically had to split the various step procedures into quarters. More accurately, I had to split the software screens I was talking about in quarters, talk about each "quarter", while taking breaks between each. Is this how most of you create tutorials? - Jim
AltText Pop-ups
Hello All, I'm creating pop-ups from images in my documentation. I'm doing this by inserting ImageAreaAltText Markers in text frames defined in the graphics. After regenerating my project the pop-ups appear like they're supposed to when I pass my cursor over them. Unfortunately, these pop-ups remain visible for ~5 seconds. With some pop-ups containing 255 characters, five seconds is not enough time to read all of the AltText. How do I modify the time that the pop-ups remain visible? I've looked in the Scripts folder PopUp.js, but I can't find the variable that controls this. Thanks, Jim ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
AltText Pop-ups
Hello All, I'm creating pop-ups from images in my documentation. I'm doing this by inserting ImageAreaAltText Markers in text frames defined in the graphics. After regenerating my project the pop-ups appear like they're supposed to when I pass my cursor over them. Unfortunately, these pop-ups remain visible for ~5 seconds. With some pop-ups containing 255 characters, five seconds is not enough time to read all of the AltText. How do I modify the time that the pop-ups remain visible? I've looked in the Scripts folder > PopUp.js, but I can't find the variable that controls this. Thanks, Jim
Gotolinks
Hello All, My original questions about gotolinks and alt text pop-ups within graphics were answered and everything worked out fine. Thanks! Unfortunately, a new problem has arisen. Whenever I place a gotolink in one Book file that points to a newlink in another Book file, I get an error message that states that Frame 'could not find the file at the specified path'. The Help says to make sure that you put the entire path e.g., c:\Windows\programs\Framemaker\chapterone.fm. I've done this, but still get the error message. Can Frame find file (named location) even if it's on a shared drive (public drive)? - Jim ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Gotolinks
Hello All, My original questions about gotolinks and alt text pop-ups within graphics were answered and everything worked out fine. Thanks! Unfortunately, a new problem has arisen. Whenever I place a gotolink in one Book file that points to a newlink in another Book file, I get an error message that states that Frame 'could not find the file at the specified path'. The Help says to make sure that you put the entire path e.g., c:\Windows\programs\Framemaker\chapterone.fm. I've done this, but still get the error message. Can Frame find file (named location) even if it's on a shared drive (public drive)? - Jim
